linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: Show where early

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Date:	Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:52:28 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemleak: Show where early_log issues come from

On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 14:07 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Based on initial patch by Steven Rostedt.
> 
> Early kmemleak warnings did not show where the actual kmemleak API had
> been called from but rather just a backtrace to the kmemleak_init()
> function. By having all early kmemleak logs record the stack_trace, we
> can have kmemleak_init() write exactly where the problem occurred. This
> patch adds the setting of the kmemleak_warning variable every time a
> kmemleak warning is issued. The kmemleak_init() function checks this
> variable during early log replaying and prints the log trace if there
> was any warning.
> 
> Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> ---
> 
> Steven, a simpler implementation of your idea. Basically we have
> kmemleak_warn() called in several places where errors actually occur. We
> can just reuse this for printing the early log information rather than
> changing the function prototypes to return an error code.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

-- Steve


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